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CrossingtheEast-WestDivide:

LebaneseReturneeYouthConfront“Eastern”

Sectarianismand“Western”Vice

LuciaVolk

StereotypesintheAgeofTransnationalismand

GlobalizationAftertheBerlinWallcamedownin1989andthecoldwarbetweenthe

SovietUnionandtheUnitedStatesended,SamuelHuntington,aHar-

vardUniversity-basedpoliticalscientist,redrewtheglobalconºictmap

usinga“clashofcivilizations”framework.

1AccordingtoHuntington,

conºictsbetweennationswouldbereplacedbyconºictsbetweenethnic

groups(deªnedbyreligionandculture).Huntington’stheoryfound

manyfollowerswhoreinforcedhisideasthroughpotentmetaphorssuch

asThomasFriedman’s

LexusandtheOliveTree

orBenjaminBarber’s

Jihadvs.McWorlds.

2Bothbookspresenttheworldintermsofafunda-

mentalopposition:theU.S.-basedforcesofleisureandconsumption

(representedbytheiconsofluxurycarsorfastfood)arepittedagainst

ArabandMuslimforcesofunyieldingrootednessandclose-mindedfa

-naticism.Inotherwords,thesetheoristsofglobalizationcreatedanun

-derstandingoftheworldusingstereotypicalmetaphorsofaluxurious

andefªcient“West”(theUnitedStates)andanarrow-mindedandsec

-tarian“East”(theArabworld).

Againstthisconºictparadigmthatemergedintheªeldsofinterna

-tionalrelationsandinternationalpolitics,scholarsinthedisciplinesof

anthropologyandsociologyhavearguedthatthecurrentglobalorderis

bestunderstoodthroughtheoriesthatdissolvecivilizationsbordersor

boundaries.Thecentraliconinthisªeldofstudyisthetransnationalin

-dividualwhotravelsbackandforthbetweenacountryoforiginanda

hostcountry.Keepingclosetieswithcommunitiesathome,transnation

-alsmakemoneyintheWest,sendittotheirimmediateorextendedfam

-iliesbackhome,andusetheirincreased(ªnancial)statustoengagein

politicsintheirvillagesandtownsoforigin.

3Asaresult,transnational

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